Table of Contents
148 relations: Aeolian processes, Alluvial fan, Amargosa River, Amargosa springsnail, Amargosa tryonia, Argus Range, Arizona, Astragalus lentiginosus, Bacteria, Badwater Basin, Ballarat, California, Basalt, Basement (geology), Basin and Range Province, Basin and range topography, Basques, Bighorn sheep, Black Mountains (California), Blister beetle, Breccia, Butte, California, Cambrian, Carbonate rock, Charcoal, Clay, Concrete, Conglomerate (geology), Cut and fill, Cylindropuntia, Death Valley, Death Valley June beetle, Death Valley National Park, Death Valley pupfish, Desert varnish, Distichlis spicata, Dolomite (mineral), Dolomite (rock), Dry lake, Dune, Elevation, Endemism, Endorheic basin, Ephedra (plant), Ephedra funerea, Eureka Quartzite, Evaporation, Fault (geology), Fault scarp, Feldspar, ... Expand index (98 more) »
Aeolian processes
Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth (or other planets).
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Alluvial fan
An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment.
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Amargosa River
The Amargosa River is an intermittent waterway, 185 miles (298 km) long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Amargosa River are Death Valley.
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Amargosa springsnail
The Amargosa springsnail (Pyrgulopsis amargosae) is a snail in the family Hydrobiidae. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and amargosa springsnail are Death Valley.
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Amargosa tryonia
The Amargosa tryonia, scientific name Tryonia variegata, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.
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Argus Range
The Argus Range is a mountain range located in Inyo County, California, southeast of the town of Darwin.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; AlÄ á¹£onak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
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Astragalus lentiginosus
Astragalus lentiginosus Astragalus lentiginosus is a species of legume native to western North America where it grows in a range of habitats. Common names include spotted locoweed page 752 and freckled milkvetch. There are a great number of wild varieties. The flower and the fruit of an individual plant are generally needed to identify the specific variety.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
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Badwater Basin
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of below sea level. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Badwater Basin are Death Valley and Death Valley National Park.
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Ballarat, California
Ballarat is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.
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Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
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Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.
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Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Basin and range topography
Basin and range topography is characterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys.
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Basques
The Basques (or; euskaldunak; vascos; basques) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.
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Bighorn sheep
The bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) is a species of sheep native to North America.
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Black Mountains (California)
The Black Mountains are a mountain range located in the southeastern part of Inyo County, California, within southeastern Death Valley National Park. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Black Mountains (California) are Death Valley National Park.
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Blister beetle
Blister beetles are beetles of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin.
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Breccia
Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.
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Butte
In geomorphology, a butte is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Cambrian
The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Carbonate rock
Carbonate rocks are a class of sedimentary rocks composed primarily of carbonate minerals.
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Charcoal
Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
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Concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.
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Conglomerate (geology)
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.
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Cut and fill
In earthmoving, cut and fill is the process of constructing a railway, road or canal whereby the amount of material from cuts roughly matches the amount of fill needed to make nearby embankments to minimize the amount of construction labor.
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Cylindropuntia
Cylindropuntia is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae), containing species commonly known as chollas, native to northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
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Death Valley
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Death Valley are Death Valley National Park.
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Death Valley June beetle
The Death Valley June beetle (Polyphylla erratica) is a scarab beetle in the subfamily Melolonthinae. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Death Valley June beetle are Death Valley.
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Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Death Valley National Park are Death Valley.
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Death Valley pupfish
The Death Valley pupfish (Cyprinodon salinus), also known as Salt Creek pupfish, is a small species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae found only in Death Valley National Park, California, United States. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Death Valley pupfish are Death Valley.
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Desert varnish
Desert varnish or rock varnish is an orange-yellow to black coating found on exposed rock surfaces in arid environments.
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Distichlis spicata
Distichlis spicata is a species of grass known by several common names, including seashore saltgrass, inland saltgrass, and desert saltgrass.
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Dolomite (mineral)
Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite (see Dolomite (rock)).
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Dolomite (rock)
Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.
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Dry lake
A dry lake bed, also known as a playa, is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceed recharge.
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Dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.
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Elevation
The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swamps that equilibrate through evaporation.
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Ephedra (plant)
Ephedra is a genus of gymnosperm shrubs.
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Ephedra funerea
Ephedra funerea is a species of Ephedra, known by the common name Death Valley jointfir, Death Valley ephedra, or Mormon Tea. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and ephedra funerea are Death Valley National Park.
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Eureka Quartzite
The Eureka Quartzite is an extensive Paleozoic marine sandstone deposit in western North America that is notable for its great extent, extreme purity, consistently fine grain size of Quartzite, and its tendency to form conspicuous white cliffs visible from afar.
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Evaporation
Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.
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Fault scarp
A fault scarp is a small step-like offset of the ground surface in which one side of a fault has shifted vertically in relation to the other.
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Feldspar
Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.
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Flash flood
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.
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Flood
A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.
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Furnace Creek Fault Zone
The Furnace Creek Fault Zone (FCFZ) is a geological fault that is located in Eastern California and southwestern Nevada. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Furnace Creek Fault Zone are Death Valley National Park.
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Furnace Creek, California
Furnace Creek, formerly Greenland Ranch, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Furnace Creek, California are Death Valley and Death Valley National Park.
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Geological formation
A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).
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Ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
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Golf course
A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played.
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Graben
In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.
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Grapevine Mountains
The Grapevine Mountains is a mountain range located along the border of Inyo County, California and Nye County, Nevada in the United States. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Grapevine Mountains are Death Valley and Death Valley National Park.
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Halite
Halite, commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride (NaCl).
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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Horst (geology)
In physical geography and geology, a horst is a raised fault block bounded by normal faults.
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Ibex Hills
The Ibex Hills are a mountain range in Inyo County, California.
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Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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Inyo County, California
Inyo County is a county in the eastern central part of the U.S. state of California, located between the Sierra Nevada and the state of Nevada.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
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Juniper
Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.
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Juniperus osteosperma
Juniperus osteosperma (Utah juniper; syn. J. utahensis) is a shrub or small tree native to the southwestern United States.
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Laguna del Carbón
Laguna del Carbón (Spanish for "coal lagoon") is a salt lake in Corpen Aike Department, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
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Lake Manly
Lake Manly is a pluvial lake in Death Valley, California. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and lake Manly are Death Valley.
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Larrea tridentata
Larrea tridentata, called creosote bush and greasewood as a plant, chaparral as a medicinal herb, and gobernadora (Spanish for "governess") in Mexico, due to its ability to secure more water by inhibiting the growth of nearby plants.
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Last Chance Range
The Last Chance Range of California is located near the Nevada state line in eastern Inyo County in the United States. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Last Chance Range are Death Valley.
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Leadfield, California
Leadfield was an unincorporated community, and historic mining town in Inyo County, California.
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Levi F. Noble
Levi Fatzinger Noble (November 11, 1882 – August 4, 1965) was an American geologist.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
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Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
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Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25.
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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.
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Marsh
In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.
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Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
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Mesquite
Mesquite is a common name for several plants in the genus Prosopis, which contains over 40 species of small leguminous trees.
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Metal
A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.
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Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
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Metamorphism
Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.
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Metasomatism
Metasomatism (from the Greek μετά metá "change" and σῶμα sôma "body") is the chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other fluids.
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Mica
Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates.
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Miner
A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Mount Charleston
Mount Charleston, including Charleston Peak (Nuvagantu, literally "where snow sits", in Southern Paiute or Nüpakatütün in Shoshoni) at, is the highest mountain in both the Spring Mountains and Clark County, in Nevada, United States.
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Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; Too-man-i-goo-yah) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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National Park Service ranger
National Park Service rangers are among the uniformed employees charged with protecting and preserving areas set aside in the National Park System by the United States Congress and the President of the United States.
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Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.
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Natural arch
A natural arch, natural bridge, or (less commonly) rock arch is a natural landform where an arch has formed with an opening underneath.
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Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation (Naabeehó Bináhásdzo), also known as Navajoland, is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States.
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Nitrate
Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Oasis
In ecology, an oasis (oases) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment.
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Oasis at Death Valley
The Oasis at Death Valley, formerly called Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch Resort, is a luxury resort in Furnace Creek, on private land within the boundaries of California's Death Valley National Park.
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Oenothera californica
Oenothera californica, known by the common name California evening primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Oenothera californica are Death Valley National Park.
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Ore
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Pacific Coast Borax Company
The Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB) was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis Smith, the "Borax King". Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Pacific Coast Borax Company are Death Valley.
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Panamint Range
The Panamint Range is a short rugged fault-block mountain range in the northern Mojave Desert, within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, eastern California. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Panamint Range are Death Valley and Death Valley National Park.
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Panamint Springs
Panamint Springs is private resort in Inyo County, California.
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Petroglyph
A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
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Phragmites
Phragmites is a genus of four species of large perennial reed grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world.
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Piedmont Charcoal Kilns State Historic Site
The Piedmont Charcoal Kilns in Piedmont, Wyoming, are a remnant of a once-extensive charcoal-making industry in southwestern Wyoming.
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Pinus monophylla
Pinus monophylla, the single-leaf pinyon, (alternatively spelled piñon) is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to North America.
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Pinyon pine
The pinyon or piñon pine group grows in southwestern North America, especially in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah.
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Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
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Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).
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Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
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Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.
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Sailing stones
Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal intervention. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Sailing stones are Death Valley and Death Valley National Park.
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Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).
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Salt pan (geology)
Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.
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Saratoga Springs pupfish
The Saratoga Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis nevadensis) is a subspecies of the Amargosa pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis) of the family Cyprinodontidae. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Saratoga Springs pupfish are Death Valley.
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Saratoga Springs, New York
Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States.
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Scirpus
Scirpus is a genus of grass-like species in the sedge family Cyperaceae many with the common names club-rush, wood club-rush or bulrush.
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Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
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Singing sand
Singing sand, also called whistling sand, barking sand, booming sand or singing dune, is sand that produces sound.
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Slate Range (California)
The Slate Range is located in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California, southwest of Death Valley and east of Trona.
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Smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.
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Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
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Swallenia
Swallenia is a rare genus of plants in the grass family, found only in Death Valley National Park, California. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Swallenia are Death Valley National Park.
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Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.
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Talc
Talc, or talcum, is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, with the chemical formula.
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Telescope Peak
Telescope Peak (Timbisha: Chiombe) is the highest point within Death Valley National Park, in the U.S. state of California. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Telescope Peak are Death Valley.
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Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
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Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.
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Tussock grass
Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae.
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Twenty-mule team
Twenty-mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that transported borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1898. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Twenty-mule team are Death Valley and Death Valley National Park.
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Ubehebe Craters
The Ubehebe Craters are a volcanic field in the northern Death Valley of California, consisting of 14–16 craters in a area. Places of interest in the Death Valley area and Ubehebe Craters are Death Valley and Death Valley National Park.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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Ventifact
A ventifact (also wind-faceted stone, windkanter) is a rock that has been abraded, pitted, etched, grooved, or polished by wind-driven sand or ice crystals.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Walker Charcoal Kiln
The Walker Charcoal Kiln is a structure in the Prescott National Forest near the town of Walker, Arizona and situated in the vicinity of the abandoned Poland Junction Mine near the summit of Renegade Hill.
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Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
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Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
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Wheeler Survey
The Wheeler Survey, carried out in 1872-1879, was one of the "Four Great Surveys" conducted by the United States government after the Civil War primarily to document the geology and natural resources of the American West.
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References
Also known as Aguereberry Point, Amargosa Chaos, Artist palette, Artist's Pallet (Death Valley), Artist's Pallete (Death Valley), Devil's Golf Course, Hells Gate (California), Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Mosaic Canyon, Natural Bridge Canyon, Places of interest in the Death and Panamint valleys area, Saratoga Springs (Death Valley), Saratoga Springs, San Bernardino County, California, Shoreline Butte, Teakettle Junction, Teakettle Junction, CA, Tucki Mountain, Wildrose charcoal kilns.